American Rock and the Classical Music Tradition

Rating:
Summary: 5 stars for 'Listening to Zappa' by Jonathan W. Bernard
Review: First of all: I am not dealing professionally in any way with music and I am not a music theory student either. However, I find the article 'Listening to Zappa' by Professor Jonathan W. Bernard (which takes circa one third of this volume) as much entertaining as insightful. Like me, Mr. Bernard is a Zappa fan from his early youth on, and in spite of all the theoretical analysis, one can feel that the author truly likes Zappa's music and even appreciates his sense of (often purely musically expressed) absurd humour.

So if you are seriously into Frank Zappa and his music (and his musical parody, of course), this book is a must!